Microsoft embarks on analytics revolution with new acquisition
Microsoft completes the acquisition of Revolution Analytics, a big data predictive analysis firm, for an undisclosed amount.
Microsoft completes the acquisition of Revolution Analytics, a big data predictive analysis firm, for an undisclosed amount.
In a move to beef up its portfolio of analysis software and services, Microsoft is acquiring Revolution Analytics, a major commercial distributor of the R statistical programming language.
The R programming language is quickly gaining popular ground against the traditional statistics packages such as SPSS, SAS and MATLAB, at least according to one data statistician who teaches the language.
To help organizations get a better handle on the R statistical programming language, which is enjoying a surge in use as a big-data analysis tool, Revolution Analytics has introduced a new support package.
Amazon Web Services now offers a hosted version of the R programming language, providing an easy way for individuals and organizations to start and test their big-data-styled analysis projects.
Sensing a growing interest in big data-style analysis, software provider Revolution Analytics has updated its flagship package of R statistical functions so it can be run with the Hadoop data processing platform.
The co-creator of an internationally recognised statistical program called R claims a US company is in exploiting the program’s open source licence.
A company focused on R, the open-source language for statistical analysis, has relaunched itself and given a preview of its technology roadmap for 2010.